PRINTER'S NO. 1313
No. 1111 Session of 2003
INTRODUCED BY E. Z. TAYLOR, BOYD, HENNESSEY, ARGALL, THOMAS,
GORDNER, FLICK, VANCE, R. STEVENSON, ARMSTRONG, GRUCELA,
B. SMITH, DeWEESE, FAIRCHILD, McILHATTAN, CAPPELLI, FICHTER,
GODSHALL, HARRIS, R. MILLER, BARRAR, HESS, LEACH, HERMAN,
RUBLEY, COSTA, PHILLIPS, SAYLOR, REED, SHANER, NAILOR,
HICKERNELL, TIGUE, BELFANTI, WATSON, CREIGHTON, EGOLF, SURRA,
CAWLEY, PAYNE, McNAUGHTON, WANSACZ, BARD, WALKO, GEIST,
MANDERINO, GINGRICH, GILLESPIE, SCHRODER, DAILEY, SATHER,
ROSS, FREEMAN, TURZAI, HERSHEY, O'NEILL AND WEBER,
APRIL 9, 2003
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES,
APRIL 9, 2003
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of June 29, 1953 (P.L.304, No.66), entitled "An
2 act providing for the administration of a statewide system of
3 vital statistics; prescribing the functions of the State
4 Department of Health, the State Advisory Health Board and
5 local registrars; imposing duties upon coroners,
6 prothonotaries, clerks of orphans' court, physicians,
7 midwives and other persons; requiring reports and
8 certificates for the registration of vital statistics;
9 regulating the disposition of dead bodies; limiting the
10 disclosure of records; prescribing the sufficiency of vital
11 statistics records as evidence; prescribing fees and
12 penalties; and revising and consolidating the laws relating
13 thereto," further providing for reports to county
14 registration commissions.
15 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
16 hereby enacts as follows:
17 Section 1. Section 801.1 of the act of June 29, 1953
18 (P.L.304, No.66), known as the Vital Statistics Law of 1953,
19 added August 18, 1961 (P.L.1011, No.452), is amended to read:
1 Section 801.1. Records: Reports to County Registration
2 Commissions.--The department shall, within 30 days of the last
3 day of each calendar month, report [monthly] in writing to the
4 registration commission of each county the deaths of residents
5 of such counties, except residents less than [twenty] eighteen
6 years of age, for [the preceding] that month. Said report shall
7 contain the full name of the decedent, his last address, the
8 date of his birth if available, and the date of his death. A
9 copy of each report shall be filed contemporaneously with the
10 Bureau of Commissions, Elections and Legislation in the
11 Department of State.
12 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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